After much blood, sweat, and tears, I am pleased to introduce the

[p0tat0es]

Guitar G33K Community.

For all things related to stringed instrument players, and the people who love them.

Sounds like a fuckin' Springer episode.

Read the info page and you'll figger it out.

TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
Or else I'll be sad. And you don't want that.


(Thanks to Robert for inspiring me to start my own community and for listening to me rant about the virtues of the baritone guitar.)

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[ateolf.livejournal.com]

ranting about guitars rules...although i must say it always seemed like a baritone guitar would be a lot cooler and more exotic than it actually is...just a 6-string bass...i dunno...the word "baritone" made me think it might be some weird manifestation between the bass and regular (tenor?) guitar...instead of being a full bass +...but i prob'ly just too imaginative or something...

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[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

It's a bass sorta, and a guitar sorta...it doesn't go as low as a regular bass, or as high as a guitar...I think it's sorta exotic :) I've seen/read about tenor guitars (four strings, don't know how it's tuned) and tenor basses (ADGC). There's also piccolo basses, and I don't really know the story on those either. There's also that thing that Elliot Sharp plays...I think it's an 8-string or something.

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[ateolf.livejournal.com]

damnit...then i musta misunderstood, 'cuz i thought you were saying it started where a bass starts but goes up to 6 strings...i guess i'm just retarded or something...what guitars need to start bringing back is sympathetic strings...one day when i have the money i'm gonna make one (some) by cracky!

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[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

The Trading Musician (where I buy most of my stuff) has 2 Silvertones; one is an electric bouzouki (the Greek long neck lute type thing)...the Dead Kennedys used one, and the other is set up so that is buzzes like a sitar...what you said about sympathetic strings made me think of that. I have my 'brown' bass (a Global, $100 piece of shit) set up with the two guitar strings (a .16 and an .11, or something) where the E & A would normally be, and then two bass strings (in the D & G string positions). The skinny strings are set really low and slack, so I can push down on them behind the nut to get a rapid pitch bend. Basically the point was to have the guitar strings act as drones while I fret the bass strings. I normally play it with a pick. It has this kind of thick ugly sound to it, at least when the pick ups decide to cooperate.